Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

2fer Tuesday
The Queen and her young apprentice.
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That is a great picture Bob!

 

[BY Bob]

What hatchery do they get their chicks from?

Hoovers has a delivery date for today and I am wondering in Peavey Mart has a delivery of chicks in today - NOT that I want any more chickens, I am up to my chin in chickens. But they sure are cute to look at

Phyllis agrees. Cute to look at.

 

[BY Bob]

Education and I plan to start my Masters in Learning Experience Design and Educational Technology right after I finish my BA. I hope to get back into the workforce while I do the Masters program though.

Impressive. You can do it!

 

[featherhead007]

2 for Tuesday.

Not that I am enabling or influencing someone....but EEs and Rocks also make best friends.
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Yes they do:

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Anna was not eating or drinking anything on her own today, even with the others doing it around her. Up until this evening. She's spent most of the day hunched, eyes closed, and curled in a ball. It's not clear she's getting better yet.

Around 1pm I syringed 1 ml of treated water but then also about 1ml of hummingbird sugar water, so the corid dose as far as drinking water got halved. I called the vet. The vet called back and said only syringe the Corid water, that they can go three weeks without eating, as long as they're drinking. Also that it could be three days before we see real improvement. I asked and she confirmed that Coccidiosis can kill without lots of bloody diarrhea. I asked what is the mechanism and she wasn't sure off the top of her head.

I said the other two are company for her and everyone's inside but the others could use some outdoor exercise, sometimes jumping around her, sometimes stepping on part of her, and she said to keep her as quiet and calm as possible.

Late this afternoon I was about to syringe fluid again when she came alive, opened her eyes and readily drank from a cup and also ate a little. Then she went back to the warming panel under the towel and fluffed and tucked her head in.

Meanwhile her sisters have been going along with the program confined indoors with her but also going slightly nuts. Though a good third of the room has now become an aviary they need way more open space. So I thought an hour outside for them might work while Anna slept. I left her in the tote and brought the two girls out on my arm and shoulder, dumped the wild water, set up some Corid water and the pen fence. Sure enough the first thing they did was race around, flapping and running.

DH soon came out saying the one upstairs was making noise.

Yup, Anna was yelping, so I quickly went up there while talking to her, unplugged the panel and took her and everything outside and plugged it in there. She immediately took an interest and wanted up and out too, I had to help her, and she went through the motions of foraging in the beans tomato bed and even drank a little more treated water, then closed her eyes, got hunched and still again and I put her in the tote.

But they can see through the tote pretty well, so she would sleep back under the towel and then check on everybody. The two decided to excavate the part of the towel lying next to the tote. I think she doesn't mind the commotion, it's a comfort. Everybody would come back to her too, though they could have gone further afield into the main garden. When they were behind the tote she wanted up again and couldn't jump up, so I put her on the towel for a little while. She seemed content there but she is a sad sight.

Here she is coming out to watch for a bit when they were the furthest away

Again, a different time, she needed to see.

Here she is hanging out on top, there's warmth from the panel below

She's eating and drinking with eyes closed, sort of stabbing in the direction she senses to go and I've been adjusting the placement so she gets something. She doesn't open her eyes unless she really needs to.

Sorry for the long post, it helps to tell you all.

 

[BY Bob]

Hey, your Royal worshipfulness, how about a decision about Jaffar’s future appointment to your FBA court?

I was able to get an audience today and present his case. She has taken it under advisement and will rule when she is ready.

 

[Ponypoor]

Anna was not eating or drinking anything on her own today, even with the others doing it around her. Up until this evening. She's spent most of the day hunched, eyes closed, and curled in a ball. It's not clear she's getting better yet.

Around 1pm I syringed 1 ml of treated water but then also about 1ml of hummingbird sugar water, so the corid dose as far as drinking water got halved. I called the vet. The vet called back and said only syringe the Corid water, that they can go three weeks without eating, as long as they're drinking. Also that it could be three days before we see real improvement. I asked and she confirmed that Coccidiosis can kill without lots of bloody diarrhea. I asked what is the mechanism and she wasn't sure off the top of her head.

I said the other two are company for her and everyone's inside but the others could use some outdoor exercise, sometimes jumping around her, sometimes stepping on part of her, and she said to keep her as quiet and calm as possible.

Late this afternoon I was about to syringe fluid again when she came alive, opened her eyes and readily drank from a cup and also ate a little. Then she went back to the warming panel under the towel and fluffed and tucked her head in.

Meanwhile her sisters have been going along with the program confined indoors with her but also going slightly nuts. Though a good third of the room has now become an aviary they need way more open space. So I thought an hour outside for them might work while Anna slept. I left her in the tote and brought the two girls out on my arm and shoulder, dumped the wild water, set up some Corid water and the pen fence. Sure enough the first thing they did was race around, flapping and running.

DH soon came out saying the one upstairs was making noise.

Yup, Anna was yelping, so I quickly went up there while talking to her, unplugged the panel and took her and everything outside and plugged it in there. She immediately took an interest and wanted up and out too, I had to help her, and she went through the motions of foraging in the beans tomato bed and even drank a little more treated water, then closed her eyes, got hunched and still again and I put her in the tote.

But they can see through the tote pretty well, so she would sleep back under the towel and then check on everybody. The two decided to excavate the part of the towel lying next to the tote. I think she doesn't mind the commotion, it's a comfort. Everybody would come back to her too, though they could have gone further afield into the main garden. When they were behind the tote she wanted up again and couldn't jump up, so I put her on the towel for a little while. She seemed content there but she is a sad sight.

Here she is coming out to watch for a bit when they were the furthest away
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Again, a different time, she needed to see.
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Here she is hanging out on top, there's warmth from the panel below
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She's eating and drinking with eyes closed, sort of stabbing in the direction she senses to go and I've been adjusting the placement so she gets something. She doesn't open her eyes unless she really needs to.

Sorry for the long post, it helps to tell you all.

Awww wee little lass, tough being sick, but you are doing all the right things. Making sure she gets the Corid is important. Did you ask the Vet about antibiotics? If she is really sick she may need antibiotics to help

 

[BY Bob]

Just doing some sitting with the chickens this evening.

How wonderful.

 

[BY Bob]

That is a great picture Bob!

Thank you.

 

[featherhead007]

I was able to get an audience today and present his case. She has taken it under advisement and will rule when she is ready.

I can’t ask for more than that. (But Jaffar will always ask for more, probably!)